sharpworkdraft · never posted · 1:52am
gm. the ai is fine. the forward button is the problem. the ai just makes the forward button feel like work.
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gm.
your meeting summary is 1,400 words and three of them are true.1
sharpwork is a membership for people who use ai at work and would like to keep being trusted at work. toolkits and checks for the one step nobody automates: reading it before it leaves your desk.
send a summary, not a grenade.
§1 · field guide
anatomy of a slop grenade2
a slop grenade is ai output nobody read, handed to someone who now has to. you pull the pin. they find out what's inside. everyone's afternoon gets a little worse, in a way that's hard to explain to your family.
tl;dr: launch moves to friday.
- decided by: the budget owner, tuesday's call, around minute 14
- numbers: from the 10/2 export, still current
- open: who tells the client? need a name by wednesday
read before sending. twice.
- the pin. the send button. weighs nothing. comes out very easily at 4:55 on a friday.
- the casing. 900 words of recap nobody asked for, wrapped tightly around one actual decision.
- the lever. a "fwd:" from someone busy. not evil. busy. (affectionate.) busy is how grenades travel.
- the fuse. a deck the presenter is reading for the first time, live, at the same time as you.
- the shrapnel. a summary that says someone "committed" to a thing nobody said. now there's a meeting about the meeting.
how to defuse one
- read it.
- there is no step 2.
§2 · the manifesto
the five rules
a manifesto. a short one. see rule 2.
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tl;dr first.
if the point lives in paragraph four, it's being held hostage. lead with it. let the details follow like ducklings.
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clear and concise.
write it like you're saying it out loud to someone you respect who is also holding a very full coffee. they have places to be. so do you.
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bullets where they help.
bullets are a tool, not a personality. one level is a list. two is an outline. four is a filing cabinet falling down the stairs.
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text only. strip copilot's source links.
the little [1] [2] [3] confetti is for you, not them. they asked for the answer, not the bibliography. paste it as plain text, like a person.
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know where every number came from, and how current it is.
every decision traces back to the human who actually said it, and when. if you can't point at them, it didn't happen. it just got summarized.3
this is the real one. the other four are manners.
§3 · the toy
ai slop bingo
paste an email, a recap, a "quick summary" that somehow scrolls. the card lights up the classic tells. it's a vibe check, not a detector.4
nothing you paste leaves this page. no server, no ai, no analytics. it's a few dozen regexes and a dream. unplug your wifi and it still works.
paste something. we'll wait.
we're a webpage. waiting is kind of our whole thing.
vibe check, not a detector. it checks style tells, not truth. a perfectly clean email can still be perfectly wrong. the real test is rule 5: where did every number come from, and who actually said it?
where we saw them
§4 · timeline
from the drafts folder
posts we wrote late at night and reread in the morning. that second step is the entire product.
sharpworkdraft · never posted · 11:47pm
if your summary needs a summary, congratulations, it's a draft.
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sharpworkdraft · never posted · 2:14am
"per the attached" is not a source. who said it. when. that's the whole post.
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sharpworkdraft · never posted · 12:30am
reading the thing before you send it is free, fast, and undefeated.
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sharpworkdraft · never posted · 1:05am
hot take: an email is allowed to just end. it doesn't need a paragraph about next steps. it can simply stop.
like this.
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sharpworkdraft · never posted · 3:03am
every number deserves a parent and a birthday. where it came from. when it was last true. be so for real.
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§5 · social proof
testimonials
we don't have any yet and we refuse to make them up. that's kind of the whole point.
this space intentionally left blank.
we could ask a chatbot for five glowing reviews and have them in seconds. it would call us a game-changer by sentence two. you'd know. we'd know. honestly the chatbot would probably know.
reserved for a real person saying a real thing, with permission, attributed to the human who actually said it. rule 5 applies to the marketing too.
§6 · faq
frequently asked questions (by us, to ourselves, in the car)
is this anti-ai?
no. we use it every day. we're anti-unread. the ai wrote a perfectly fine first draft. things went wrong at the part where nobody read it.
can the bingo card tell if a robot wrote something?
no. please don't use it on your coworkers like a lie detector. people write "robust" too, especially on mondays. it's a mirror, not a polygraph.
why is everything lowercase?
capital letters started to feel like a press release. we know lowercase is also a bit. we're committed to the bit. the only capitals on this page live inside the bingo samples. they're specimens. specimens keep their capitals.
is the em dash really that bad?
no, and we're normal about it. it's a lovely punctuation mark that fell in with the wrong crowd. we allowed exactly one on this entire page. it's quarantined in the sloppy sample. visiting hours are whenever you click the button.
okay but what do i actually get?
a membership to sharpwork's ai toolkits for professionals: prompts and checks built for real work, so what leaves your desk is something you'd put your name on. you bring your own ai. we bring the checklist.
did an ai write this page?
an ai drafted it. a human is supposed to read every word before it goes anywhere. if you're looking at this, that part is happening right now. hi. blink twice if it's long.
who is this for?
anyone who has received a 900-word recap of a meeting they were in. also anyone who has sent one. no judgment. okay, a little judgment. gentle, lowercase judgment.
§7 · the price
$29.99. then $6.97 a month.
no trial, no tricks, we checked.5
cancel whenever. we'll be sad in a dignified, lowercase way.
join sharpwork
(this one does what it says. it opens stripe checkout, and the numbers there match the receipt.)
sharpworkmembership, itemized
- today
- $29.99
- then, monthly
- $6.97
- free trial
- none
- tricks
- none
- countdown timer
- no
- "only 3 spots left"
- no
- crossed-out fake price
- no
- chatbot in the corner
- no
- you read the receipt
- yes
thank you for reading the receipt.
you're going to be great at this.